Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What he was after was not bank funding but advice on European Community finance that might be available .
2 Yeah , yeah , that 's what I mean , I mean he could of been fucking I R A
3 , Alexander Macomb ( 1844–1917 ) , industrialist , was born 28 June 1844 in Edgbaston , Birmingham , the ninth and youngest child of George Chance , a hardware merchant , and his wife Cornelia Maria , daughter of Are nt Schuyler de Peyster of New York .
4 The miscibility of this type of system is observed to be strongly temperature dependent and as T decreases the solution separates into two phases .
5 Project two thousand , but it it seems to be mostly class work and very
6 If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk .
7 The definition of the S-B free volume can be seen from figure 12.10 to be where V o ι is the hypothetical liquid volume at absolute zero .
8 There will also be talk of a return by Boycott , who has always been open in admitting that he would like to be either cricket chairman or team manager .
9 One question is certain to be why commission income of about £70 million a year from timber felling is not more than £80 million .
10 No one from the station is likely to be there Saturday lunchtime — too formal . ’
11 Owners of domestic dogs do not normally expect their pets to be out hunting prey , bringing it down and killing it , in the same fashion as their wild cousins — the wolf on the Arctic Tundra or the Cape hunting dog of the African Serengeti .
12 Double-breasted to be fastened up to the collar , or left open , the reefer quickly ceased to be only navy blue and became a double-breasted tweed ‘ casual ’ coat , a direct ancestor o f the modern double-breasted suit .
13 It dwelt on the problems arising when Irish suspects , caught in police trawls , turned out to be only Republican sympathisers rather than terrorists .
14 Her patronage of Bruce Oldfield notwithstanding , the Princess ' instinct for clothes , once freed from the stultifying dullness of her ultra-yah family , has proved to be more High Street than haute couture ; witness the acres of Di-wear replication in major chain stores and at weddings and company dances the length and width of the land ( and in Australia and the United States too where she is a considerable star ) .
15 Oilseed production is likely to be about 12.8m tonnes , compared with 12.4m tonnes last year .
16 Erm and a I think quite clearly there would be a conflict with what appears to be currently extent government policy to regenerate er the metropolitan areas of Cleveland erm and West Yorkshire .
17 ‘ I guess there are some benefits to being little Miss Purity 1963 , ’ a sultry voice intoned behind them .
18 Some boards had enthusiastic and confident training coordinators who went beyond being merely information providers and saw their role as facilitating the identification of needs and discussion of plans for a training programme .
19 New Age music has been cast aside from the mainstream , vilified for being either hippy nonsense or an adjunct to achieving altered states of consciousness .
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